Spaceway F2 is part of DirecTV’s constellation of direct broadcast satellites. The satellite was launched via an Arianespace Ariane 5 ECA rocket from Kourou French Guiana on November 16 2005. […]
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Shenzhou 10
Shenzhou 10 (Mandarin Chinese: 神舟十号 Shénzhōu shíhào) was a manned spaceflight of China’s Shenzhou program that was launched on 11 June 2013. It was China’s fifth manned space mission. The […]
Shenzhou 9
Shenzhou 9 was a manned spacecraft flight of China’s Shenzhou program launched at 18:37:24 CST (10:37:24 UTC) 16 June 2012. Shenzhou 9 was the second spacecraft and first manned spacecraft […]
TopSat
TopSat (Tactical Operational Satellite) is a British Earth observation satellite currently in Low Earth Orbit. The nanosatellite was launched in October 2005 alongside the Beijing-1 Disaster Monitoring Constellation satellite by […]
Sina-1
Sina-1 (Persian: سینا ۱) is the first Iranian artificial satellite launched at 6:52 UTC October 28 2005 on board a Cosmos-3M Russian launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The rocket […]
Vinasat-1
Vinasat-1 is the first Vietnamese satellite to be placed in orbit. It was launched at 22:17 GMT on 18 April 2008 by an Ariane 5ECA rocket from the Guiana Space […]
AMC-3
AMC-3 (formerly GE 3) is a commercial broadcast communications satellite owned by SES World Skies formerly SES Americom and before that GE Americom. Launched on September 4 1997 from Cape […]
Shenzhou 8
Shenzhou 8 (Chinese: 神舟八号) was an unmanned flight of China’s Shenzhou program launched on October 31 2011 UTC or November 1 in China by a modified Long March 2F (CZ-2F) […]
Soyuz TMA-8
Soyuz TMA-8 was a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle.
Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer
The Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) was the first of ESA’s Living Planet Programme satellites intended to map in unprecedented detail the Earth’s gravity field. The spacecraft’s […]